Petition circulates to recall two Benton Charter Township officials

Tensions continue to rise in Benton Charter Township. A taxpayer is working to get two township elected officials removed from office. Tuesday night the recall petition was already circulating.

Think of this as the second stage of the recall process. Before this moves forward to a special recall election, where the public can vote, there needs to be a certain number of signatures. In this case, that's 781, for each elected official attempted to be recalled.

"A lot of things going on in the township that we don't really like," says Willie Dortch, a taxpayer in the township.

He is working to get the nearly 800 signatures needed to get two elected officials out of office.